The Wheels on the Bus...

City buys anti-striker ads, ATU Prez suggests arbitration

HALIFAX — With Atlantic Transit Workers (ATU) Local 508 out on strike and CUPE 227, representing the Halifax Regional Water Commission employees, in a legal strike position, a solidarity rally was held by the Halifax-Dartmouth District Labour Council today at Grand Parade Square in Halifax. Despite treacherously icy conditions afoot, the rally was well attended, including a giant effigy of Peter Kelly.

Talks between the city and the ATU appear to be as frozen as the landscape, and ATU president Ken Wilson is of the opinion that arbitration, at this point, would garner local 508 a better offer than what is currently on the table.The city, for its part, unleashed this weekend a (taxpayer-funded) ad campaign aimed squarely against the striking transit workers.

Please enjoy the following conversation with Ken Wilson, President,ATU Local 508.